Stephen Glenn Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live. Martin has increasingly dedicated his career to music since the 2000s, acting less and spending much of his professional life playing banjo, recording, and touring with various bluegrass acts. In 2009, he won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
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Stephen Glenn Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. Martin has increasingly dedicated his career to music since the 2000s, acting less and spending much of his professional life playing banjo, recording, and touring with various bluegrass acts. He released his first solo music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, in 2009, for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Martin was awarded an Honorary Academy Award at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards in 2013. He is of English, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German and French descent, and was raised in Inglewood, California, with sister Melinda Martin, and then later in Garden Grove, California. In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could \”be described most accurately as an agnostic… he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition\”. In his early 20s, Martin dated Melissa Trumbo, daughter of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Martin’s first job was at Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during his school’s summer break. He was captured in the background of the home movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream, incidentally becoming his first film appearance.
Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think: What if there were no punch lines on comedy? What if, if there was no punch line, you could treat things that were hard away from things that set it up? He recalls that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly ones of hatred, with Martin later recalling that he was proud but critical of his father. In high school, Martin attended Santa Ana College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott’s Berry Farm. Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. In college, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor–comedian. His time at college changed his life and changed what I believe and believe about what I think about life. He majored in philosophy, I started studying about non-sequiturs and logic, they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize to realize there is no logic! There is no anything! Then it gets all to easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is do all to do all the real hard things that you have all to believe in. Martin won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 2002 with Earl Scruggs, with whom he won an Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards.
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